Category: Junior Literary

                          So, I’m doing something new as always lol, but let’s see how I can start it out or put it in words? Ok so people would think the best thing to do when you have a problem is to either fight it out, talk about that person, or spread rumors about them. That’s not the way at all! I know it can be hard to go up and try to talk it out with the person about what’s going on. Sometimes people would try to be the biggest person but yet they won’t do any good. No, it would, it’ll do good for you. By being the biggest person and showing how mature you are, and it shows that you’re willing to work things out and save your friendship or relationship.

    I can say I know from experience that staying quite far too long and letting everything get more and more worse. Sometimes people could talk about the problem but not with the person they got the problem with. That can lead to even more problems. The person you go to, to talk about the problem, says they are your friend, but they’ll go back and tell people what you’ve been saying then next thing you know it’s a problem with that friend.

Then it might be good to talk to your friend that you can always talk to. They would tell you the right thing (hopefully). If your friend tells you over and over aging to go talk it out with whoever you have a problem with 9 out of 10 it’s because they know something or they feel like it’s the right thing to do and, in my experience, it was both but hey I learned my lesson. I talked it out and it was then on top of that I felt a lot better after.

You shouldn’t hold anything in. When it comes to you feeling some type of way or even just thinking, it’s best to always talk to somebody. Most people would sit and listen. It depends on how that person is but always try to understand where others are coming from and help them see where you are coming from in the problem. Because if you don’t, I’m telling you this right now you might regret it, and I don’t think you would want that so just talk it out and let things go.

Well, that’s it for this blog, until next week!!

So, a few weeks ago I posted about one of my favorite shows. Ghosts! I decided that I was going to, during a rewatch, discuss my favorite episodes of each season, least favorite episodes, and overall feeling of the season! So these next few weeks are going to be filled with spoilers, you have been warned!!

The first episode is a fantastic opener to the series. You meet all of the main cast, learn if and what abilities they have, and their all around character. You learn about Pat’s death, Robin’s past, and that the ghosts can move on. You also learn about how awkward you main living characters are, especially in “Happy Death Day” where Allison is learning to adjust working with people while ghosts surround her. 

In my opinion, the worst episode of the season in “Free Pass” where a filming crew uses Button House as a filming location for a series about Lord Byron. One of the characters, Thomas, has a very personal and one sided beef with Lord Byron. The only reason he feels attacked by Byron is over the simple fact that he is a better poet. Honestly, it’s a bit ridiculous and was fun to see. However, the episode just falls short with all the jokes and it just doesn’t shine as well as the others. 

“Moonah Ston” is a contender for second lowest episode of the season. It is a really good one, you get to learn about Robin and his life, but the episode just paints all of the ghosts as largely inconsiderate to Allison and Mike. Yes, this leads a way for them to grow later, but they could’ve done the ceremony on the floor above where the dinner party was happening. Love the line “Pray tell… how you doin’?” from Thomas after him and the other ghosts were distracted with friends to stop them from ruining Allison’s dinner party. 

For the best of the season, I’m going to say the last episode is the best. “Getting Out” is Allison and Mike attempting to sell Button House to a hotel company so they can move out of that money pit. In the end, it doesn’t work out. Throughout the episode, the ghosts mock and criticize the Captain for his overbearing leadership of the other ghosts. This is the beginning of his character growth as he realizes he’s the only ghost that still wants the living people to leave. He puts his issues aside and he watches out for reasons the hotel company could be forced to leave. He tells Kitty some information to “help” Allison. Asking is she would rather Allison be happy, or be stuck at Button House. Kitty chooses the former, which results in the latter. This is the beginning of one of my favorite Ghosts duos, Kitty and the Captain who have a very father daughter relationship going on which is very sweet. 

Not a lot of growth or big events happen this season, but it’s just the first!! First of five, which I will be talking about. Actually, I’ll be talking about more than all five seasons. In order I will talk about: Seasons 1-5, Series Bloopers and other information + podcast, ranking of each season + favorite episodes, a character synopsis on my favorite character (Really, they’re alll my favorites, but there is one that shines above them all), and then I’ll discuss my knowledge on the American, Australian, Greek, and other spinoff series. Really, there wouldn’t be that many versions of the show wasn’t good. Please go watch the original please!!!! 

I myself love the spider-verse saga. What is the spider-verse saga you may be asking due to there being a lot of different spiderman movies. The Spider-verse saga is a soon to be three movie series. The movies out so far are Into the Spider-verse and Across the Spider-verse. The upcoming movie is Beyond the spider-verse. It is scheduled to come out in 2027. The production of these movies has been long and strenuous.  According to many sources, Phil Lord (The writer and producer) is very creatively indecisive. He has scrapped nearly finished scenes which take weeks to finish and have great detail. This has made a lot of the animators mad and ready to give up. But I think his Creative indecisiveness shows through the films a bit which adds a nice touch. Everything has a purpose, and everything is greatly detailed. I am not siding with him by no means, but I do see how creative indecisiveness could play a positive role in some scenarios, but I will say a deadline isn’t one of them. The movies due to this have taken year and years to release. But in turn have become some of the most acclaimed animated films. 

Here’s why. The animation style isn’t confined to one specific style. Each scene showcases many different styles. This is partly due to the concept of different dimensions coming together. All of these different styles meshed together in the right way though create amazing art and animations. I won’t nerd out too much about the animation though because normally that’s all people talk about when talking about these incredible movies. The color scheme of these movies is also unmatched in my opinion. The colors flow, contrast, and just work so beautifully together in a way that speaks volumes. 

The soundtrack. Oh my gosh where do I begin. The soundtrack fits with the movies and senses to a tee. Metro Boomin did the most recent soundtrack, and it was amazing. It tells the story in and of itself. The first soundtrack is also such a masterpiece and guides you through the story as well. Each song helps you to better feel and understand Miles’s feelings (the main spiderman throughout these movies) in my opinion. This is what makes them so great. 

I think these movies are great also due to how it showcases Stan Lee’s work. It shows how many characters he made and how diverse everyone is. In recent years certain franchises have taken his characters and stories and warped them for intentions that aren’t great in my opinion. They have taken it upon themselves to try and create diverse characters and inclusive stories, but they end up ruining the stories. I feel that it’s a good thing to have diversity and inclusivity in media but why create stories out of need for money and wanting to appeal to everyone when Stan Lee already wrote some of the most diverse characters and story lines in the superhero world. They were also not stereotypical characters or stories. They are each individual and very distinct characters. I think these movies showcase this due to how many spiderman characters he made. It makes you think about how many characters he made, and how many stories he wrote for each one and how very different each one is. Of course, some of the characters they had to make up to fill the screen but overall, every spiderman seen in the movies are in Stan Lee’s comics. This is a topic I think about a lot. It is so prominent not only in superhero movies but also just in the entertainment industry. People try to be inclusive by making up stories and characters that center around race and stereotypes. This makes me mad, honestly. Don’t get me wrong I think we need individuality in entertainment but not like this. Stories that all center around the same stereotypes mesh together and aren’t original in my opinion, it’s not art, nor is it entertaining. 

Anyways back to talking about spider-verse. It is such an awesome trilogy, and it has a great story line as well. Its writing is amazing as well. I definitely think that the production process is insane due to over 150 animators alone working on the first movie and more than 1,000 animators on the second. The animation team for these movies is one of the biggest Imageworks has ever had on one project. So, you can imagine how much of a big deal these movies are. Although they have had about 100 animators quite due to the strenuous atmosphere it’s still a huge project.

In-between the release of the last movie and the upcoming movie, Beyond the spider-verse, they have announced works on another film. A new movie solely focused on Hobie Brown, a spiderman who makes a few appearances in Across the spider-verse. Most know him as Spider-punk. The new movie has some excited while others are skeptical. Hobie is very punk, as his name suggests, and due to this fans think that they might not encapsulate the punk subculture. Punk is a great and complex subculture. It goes against authority, this is what makes people skeptical of the movie. People are scared of such a big company like Sony overseeing the project and dulling the punk aspect of the character. I think though that if they do this movie in the right way it will be great.  

 

This was one big dump of random facts about the Spider-verse movies, but I am excited to see the new movies and can’t wait for my next blog. 

 

 

 

If you are familiar with the name above the you may be familiar with the Bible but also the Netflix series show, Lucifer. 

This show is one of the most outstanding, thrilling, romantical and tear-jerker series I have ever seen. I’ve watched all six seasons three times with season three being the longest, but I can’t help but love the dynamic of the Relationships between Lucifer, his family, his therapist and Chloe Dekker.

Lucifer, otherwise known as the Devil, has led himself on this journey in believing his father, GOD, was manipulating him in ways he couldn’t explain. From rebelling against him to then ascending the throne of Hell as Hells warden then to his time in Las Angeles California or otherwise known as the “City of Angels.” with his demon associate later turned best friend Mazekien, or Maze. By the sudden unfortunate events involving the death of a popstar named Delilah, Lucifer is set on a man hunt for the people who had hurt his friend. 

(Fun fact about Lucifer: He grants favors and never lies, literally, telling people he’s the Devil goes way over their heads, but most importantly Lucifer always helped those in need, like Delilah) 

This disaster sets Lucifer in Chloe Dekkers investigation; the fated lovers were from then on inseparable. 

(I mean come on, look at how he’s looking at her!!!)

You will have to watch for yourself how Lucifer grows from the self-centered man-child to this newfound man with a calling and an amazing future. Not many would guess it would take a single homicide detective and the LAPD, heck it wouldn’t have been an option really. 

It’s something about shows that really slowly brings the main protagonist into a new light that really makes me giggle and kick my feet (metaphorically of course-kind of.)  because it’s a journey, and on top of that, with this show you also get to play detective. 

Lucifer learns a bit about himself and his situational relationships with everyone and everything around him with every case. Sometimes they’re small but sometimes they’re extraordinary. And what’s crazy is that he falls first. 

It’s a very cute and absolutely hilarious show but I will warn you and can get kind of R-rated but it’s just small pop-up moments, not actually graphic. 

 

 

 

 

Heyyy, welcome back to chats with Lydia with sprinkle a chaos, it’s been a while since I’ve written a blog with fall break and workshop week. So were finally back at it with a little update on everything going on since I’ve been at MSA! The weather is dropping I had to actually wear a jacket Monday morning it’s been a while since I have had to do that and I’m so thankful it makes it really feel like fall. I looked out the window, and the trees were blowing it is just so pretty so admiring this change. Now let me update you on my life it’s a wild one.

I am involved in so much its crazy, but I love it. I do band which is so much as itself I have many long rehearsals, Friday night football games, band competition and pep rallies. I love band it takes so much of my day, but it flies by so fast because of how much I enjoy doing it and the people in it. I am also a part of a FCA, Rise, and MSA Wonders Club. There are so many clubs here and I am so grateful for that because I actually don’t know what I would do if I was not busy.

If you ask me the best part of the year I would probably say “band.” Band is one of my favorite things ever; during fall break I got to drive up to Brookhaven every day for rehearsal and had a football game that Friday and a band competition that Saturday in Pearl MS, and last Saturday we had the opportunity to go to the coast for anther band competition. So, it has kept me busy for sure, but its apart of me I’ve been in band since sixth grade from Covid band. When we were all percussion living in Germany to now getting to the flute in Brookhaven MS. 

Theres also so much more! I found a church here in Brookhaven that I really enjoy going to, so I go to First Baptist Brookhaven every Wednesday in free and every Sunday we are here. There are so many sweet people there, and a great community. This week I’m also attaining the Go Tell America Crusade at King Field Sunday-Wednesday I am really enjoying it they are having different speaking and a worship band so many people got saved Monday night and I’m so excited to see how God will work though the rest of the event. Also Wednesday they did give away free pizza to students and did a car giveaway.

There is so much that has happened it the past few months I can’t believe it I also found a coffee shop that I love! I go there and do my schoolwork, my bible study and etc. it is such a great environment, and the workers are so sweet, the establishment is called Wild Fox highly recommend it if you haven’t already and my favorite restaurant is Torella Soup such good food and again the workers are so nice!

There still so much that I haven’t exported as I’m still getting settled and the year has just come to a start, but I’m excited to see what this chapter has to bring! Have a great week and see y’all next week with my next adventure.

But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent,
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race.

Lord Byron
The Vampyre

What is a vampire? In modern day, a vampire is a spooky ghost story creature. Something that you dress up as for Halloween or see slapped on the front of a goody bag. Once, vampires were much more than that. They were real for many people.

Imagine you are in the early 1600’s, and your wife tragically passes away on your wedding night. For weeks after, you hear her calling your name from outside your window, and she shows up in your dreams. Not only that but your cattle start showing up bled dry. You suspect your late wife of being a vampire, so you dig her up to find that she is undecomposed, with a fresh stain of blood on her lips. The pastor wants to burn her on a steak, but you still love her, so you beg them not to. You finally come to the agreement to put an iron nail through her heart, and stuff her with garlic. That night, she shows up in your dream. She says, “You’ve freed me, but you’ve cursed yourself.”

This is one of the very stories that flooded Europe, making people go as far as setting burial rituals in place for the dead. The specific type of vampire that is used for this speculation are Strigois.

In my opinion, Strigois are the most interesting type of vampires in folklore. A few of the way that you are sure to be cursed to be a Strigoi are as follows: 

• Leading a life of sin.
• Being cursed by a witch.
• Dying without being married.
• Being the seventh child. 
• Being killed by execution. 
• Being born with a caul atop your head. 

Now while vampires are obviously fictional, (…) It’s cool to think that once it was an actual worry of villagers that they would be eaten by a bloodthirsty vampire. It’s kind of like how the new generation is going to be like, “What?  Yall went through a whole 3-ish year pandemic, but the whole time y’all made TikTok’s and played Roblox?” 

While I was researching for this blog, I found a case that really stood out to me. This is the Mercy Brown Case of 1884. This is mostly all proven to be true, which really shows the power of fear. 

Mercy Brown 1884. She was a lively young woman, who was freshly married as well as the other story. Her cause of death, tuberculosis. At this time, there was no cure for tuberculosis, meaning 80% of all affected passed away. 

Well soon after this, her family slowly began getting killed off. The village went on to warn her husband, telling him old stories of vampires and witches. After a while, he decided to get all of the dead family members exhumed from their graves. In each grave, bones, yet in hers, a completely fresh corpse. In her heart and lungs, there was blood, usual for buried bodies that are fresh in the winter for that time. 

At the end, they burned her liver and heart, mixed the ashes with water, and made the husband drink it. Obviously, this did not cure him, and he passed away a few months later. 

These stories are used mostly as cautionary tales even now. Kind of like the Boogeyman. I genuinely love learning about vampires, so I hope this blog wasn’t too boring for you guys. 

 

when I first watched this show, I was honestly half asleep but i locked in quickly I really don’t know why they canceled this show it was honestly so good especially with the major plot twist every episode had you on the edge of your seat 24/7 I would recommend this show to anyone above the age of 12. it has sum explicit scenes. honestly once you watch it you understand the reason for each of their actions in this post-apocalyptic world.  I knew it was about zombies from the cover page on Netflix but when I watched it reminded me that every show, book, movie is a whole world, and everything could have a story to it.

 

 

“Daybreak” follows a student josh wheeler on his journey through the journey of his world that was reborn by a nuclear warhead that made all adults turn into mindless zombies well not completely mindless they can talk but they only repeat the last words they said before death. josh wheeler has to avoid gangs of students that claimed each part of town as their territory, a demon dressed in black on a motorcycle kidnapping kids, a girl he babysits. all to rescue Sam a girl he liked before all this happened. The nuked was dropped during the night of a big football game against a rival team josh was texting sam they were supposed to meet at the game but unfortunately a nuke was dropped on them aka horrible first date, ever since josh has been constantly trying to find his way to her leaving stick notes and wall tags everywhere.  they epic journey begins when josh thinks he finds Sam being tortured in a cabinet by the golf club, so he attacks them cutting into one of their fingers with a samurai sword unsuccessfully he actually makes his way to the cabinet only to find the smart but evil girl he baby-sitter once or twice. sum how she pops out with a Russian flamethrower and blazes through their competition.  at some point we get to the pacifist samurai “Wesley fists” e helps them and they hide out in one of the safehouses josh has stored up. there found but have the weird idea to make water ballons filled with blood in order to attract the dead and make their escape.  they run into the black motorcycle guy or who they thought was him “eli ” a guy who wears fake everything even the motorcycle was fake it had training wheels!!!! 

that’s all I’m going to spoil!!!

how would you find your lover in a world like this?

are you prey or predator? 

what would you do if all the grown-ups around you turned into mindless flesh-eating zombies?

do you know sing language?

Roblox and TikTok are the only two things y’all would see me on for real, want to know why? Bet let me tell y’all how I feel about them. I’m going to start with Roblox, Roblox was something I would play with my little sisters when we wanted to spend time together. That’s the only reason I started to play. I would see how happy it made my sisters when we played. Now I just play it to play it and it reminds me of the times we had.

Games we played

There’s lots of different games on Roblox as y’all know, but the one we would always play was, Obbys, Tycoons and scary games. My favorite one would be the Obbys because of how competitive we are, we would trash talk each other, make them lose or we would just take their phone and throw it somewhere. The best part about playing the game with them would be seeing how they would just laugh at me when I fall or die on the game. 

TikTok

Now TikTok, Baby I don’t even know how to put it in words. I have been using TikTok for as long as I can remember. Even before TikTok I was using Dub smash like it was TikTok. People say that TikTok would make you do slow things (so true) or even say that it’s making 2000’s kids crazy (also true) but the thing is, TikTok has some good stuff to watch. You can even learn stuff by watching TikTok. 

I love how I can just get on TikTok and learn a new dance every once in a while. I even get my sisters to do TikTok with me when I am at home and it is so funny because they don’t have any type of rhythm when it comes to dancing. I feel like TikTok is also a way to have fun with family and friends at times. On top of that, if I want to find a new type of music I can just go to TikTok. 

 

TikTok and Roblox has always been something I did with my sisters or even my brothers sometimes, but now I use them a lot just to be on it and even use it to get close with friends. You can do a lot on these apps, and I feel like that’s good. I might even be on TikTok when I get older.

That’s my blog for this week thx for reading.!